Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping contains inspired and often hilarious jabs at today's pop music industry, but it's not a well-rounded movie, and certainly not this generation's This Is Spinal Tap.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Taking aim at spoilt young mega stars and their ridiculous indulgences, the familiar plot is lifted by the energy of the cast and a script thats as funny as it is observant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2022

It's all surface ... but there are much worse ways to spend 86 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2021

Popstar is one of the films that arises from sharp minds with sketch comedy backgrounds, overflowing with ideas. TLI found the right pace for such an endeavor, and gave us one of the best comedies of the year.

| Apr 13, 2021

Extreme repetition gets laughs the first time around, while bursts of graphic nudity hope to stupefy viewers into forgetting the lulls that plague the middle of the picture.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Skewers celebrity without attacking the celebrities themselves.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

Handing Lonely Island $20 million and unleashing them onto the pop music landscape is a no-miss proposition.

| Jan 14, 2020

This Is Spinal Tap was able to turn the knob up to 11 -- with Popstar, 4 on the dial is the best one can reasonably expect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2019

This movie sets the standard for contemporary parody. Even if you've never heard of Justin Bieber or watched an episode of the self serving "reporting" on TMZ you'll still find lots to laugh at.

| Oct 21, 2019

An unbalanced, messy film filled with this wide an array of quality gags is infinitely more pleasing than most of what comprises the surprisingly shrinking comedy genre these days.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 9, 2019

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a genius satire as the musical mockumentary genre gets an update for the 21st century.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 11, 2019

No music mockumentary can resist comparison with This Is Spinal Tap (and no review can resist making it) but Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping does a pretty fantastic job of updating the expectations, the personalities and the music to today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

Popstar is hilarious and weird, with great jokes and songs that are both incredibly funny and remarkably catchy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2019

As long as "Pop Star" focuses on the music or satirizes the industry, the film works. The problem is when it strays away with a cookie cutter "Behind the Music"-like story arc that is never as clever as the rest of the film.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 15, 2019

Brilliantly satirizes the biographical music genre while still remaining true to being a Lonely Island film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018

A delightfully silly breath of fresh air to remind us that Hollywood is capable periodically removing its own head from its a--.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Aug 30, 2018

"Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" is not an intimately deep exploration of the music industry as a whole, but by playing it for laughs, it resonates even in its ridiculousness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Trust me, you're going to want to purchase the soundtrack to Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2017

The pulling power of producer Judd Apatow has produced a stellar cast of real-life celebrity talking heads, but the fictional underlying story just isn't quite funny enough; doubly so given its familiar path.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2017

I can't image the person who doesn't like Popstar. It's our twenty-first century Spinal Tap.

| Oct 10, 2017